British Comedy Guide

Television

TV schedule Friday 16th March 1956

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30 min
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The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d

Episode 4

The first attempt at bringing Goon Show humour to TV, this mix of sketches and sitcom-esque formulae was set around Victorian paper, The Idiot Weekly.

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